Калина красная

Shukshin very tight included in the shooting period of "Kalina Krasnaya". For example, documentary footage of a prisoner sings the song "are You still alive my old lady" (this in script), he found among the thousands of kilometers of film, spectinomycin MIA. "Kalina Krasnaya" and so begins the concert of prisoners, which was filmed in a real prison near Moscow.

Is in attendance 14-th place among domestic films in the history of Soviet film distribution.

Best film on interrogation of magazine "Soviet screen" in 1975.

A film "Kalina Krasnaya" Vasily Shukshin wrote in the hospital.

Vasily Shukshin in the film, was a screenwriter, and lead actor, and Director.

The state has allocated for the picture only 3 thousand 600 meters scarce then the film "Kodak". And we had six times as much. Therefore, the first "booster" shot was shot on a domestic "Some," then charged with "Kodak", and then it all worked in full force.

One of the key in the movie is the scene of the meeting of Egor with his mother after twenty years of separation. Decided to be persuaded to play in a tiny scene of someone from a very great Actresses and called Maretskaya. Vera Petrovna agreed, but, unfortunately, soon fell ill. Then I dared to try to find the real fate similar to that which was needed. In the end, filmed a documentary interview with this mother, which the war took all sons.

Because of the refusal from the role of the mother of Yegor Vera Maretskaya, Director Vasily Shukshin was invited to the role of local resident, Atemu Bystrov and asked in the frame just to tell you about my life. The camera installed on the street, was removed in the exposed window, the sound was written synchronously. Grandmother used to tell a story about yourself, answering questions Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, which were thought out in advance and sent the story to the film direction. For shooting Atime Bystrova have brought a fee of 700 rubles, a huge sum for those times and places, taking into account pensions in 17 rubles, as well as woolen dress, shoes and gold earrings.

At the all-Union film festival in Baku in April 1974 "the red snowball tree" was awarded the main prize.

"Kalina Krasnaya" is among the ten favorite movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.